Lot 242
  • 242

Viktor Efimovich Popkov

Estimate
18,000 - 25,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Viktor Efimovich Popkov
  • Purple Evening
  • oil on cardboard
  • 50 by 70cm, 19 3/4 by 27 1/2 in.
  • Executed in the 1960s

Literature

V.Manin, Ubiennyi khudozhnik Viktor Popkov, Moscow: SBM-Galereya, 2008, p.29 illustrated
P.Kozorezenko, Viktor Efimovich Popkov, Moscow: ART, 2012, p.301 illustrated

 

Condition

The board is sound. There is some creasing visible in the upper left corner and a small circle in the lower left corner, could be original. Under UV no pigment appears to fluoresce but varnish prevents a conclusive analysis. Held in a wood frame. Unexamined out of frame.
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